What they found clearly promotes Bhutto's argument, but it also serves as a contradictory rebuttal: "The mean score for political rights (on a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being the highest level of rights) in the Muslim world is 5.24, compared to 2.82 for the non-Muslim world. The mean score for civil liberties in Muslim countries is 4.78, compared to 2.71 for non-Muslim countries. ... By citing how Freedom House gives the title of "totally free" to only three Muslim countries, with 42 others that are considered "partly free" or "not free", Bhutto establishe...

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Since there is a correlation between BAS and connectivity in the recall of words form the DRM paradigm, I choose the same lists for both the visual and the auditory groups that have relatively equal and average BAS scores, as suggested by Roediger and McDermott (2001). ... The hypothesis of this study is that if the list used in the presentation of the DRM paradigm are relatively equal in word length and mean Bas scores, and are presented with equal amounts of time for each word, then there still should be a significant difference in the number of times the critical word is remembered when the...

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Others disagree that the knowledge from education does not necessarily matter, but the credit of education does. ... Jose Lara, 17, has earned enough high school credits to be in the ninth grade. ... On his last report card he got three A's, a B and 2 C's, and he wants to attend summer school to make up the 20 credits he needs to be able to graduate next year" (Rivera and Berkeley 7). ... Underprivileged Hispanic girls are much more likely to leave school because domestic responsibilities do not allow them the free time necessary for schooling and because families must rely on ...

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Education should be provided to everyone, free of charge, and free of discriminations. ... Although free, it does not come without distractions. ... Administrators focus more on dress codes and violence prevention, than they do on test scores and how we compare to other countries. ... This plan changed the requirements for graduation by raising the number of credits needed for graduation, raising the number of required core curriculum classes such as social studies, and introduced technology and computer science. ...

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Australia currently operates as an open, export-oriented, free market economy, a significant contributor to its 2nd place title in the top 10 highly developed nations, with a HDI of 0.938.2 Singapore's economy follows not so far behind, with a GDP of $287.4 billion (US), listed 35th in the world. Similarly, Singapore also operates as an open, export-oriented, free market economy and has a HDI of 0.895, ranked 18th in the world. ... Economy Structures Singapore has embraced the idea of free-market capitalism and is heavily engaged in the global marketplace. It holds a freedom score of 89....

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Actors, directors, and other creative film artists are no longer "stabled- by studios, but are free agents, able to work when, for whom, and as regularly as they desire. ... The New York-based critic Andrew Sarris is generally credited with concocting the auteur theory in the 1960s. ... Rhyme and were among the earliest methods of encoding and transmitting information, yet when the advent of written culture freed poetry from its mnemonic function, the finest poems became, if anything, more memorable, more seductive, and more evocative. ...

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Those who know it are culturally literate; the opportunities of a free society are open to them. ... It does not anatomize the literacy crisis or devote many pages to Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. ... Much of Japan's industrial efficiency has been credited to its almost universally high level of literacy. ...

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